[FairfieldLife] Re: The Alien in the White House
Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear And it shows them pearly white Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe And he keeps it, ah, out of sight Ya know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe Scarlet billows start to spread Fancy gloves, oh, wears old MacHeath, babe So there's never, never a trace of red Bertold Brecht According to Ralph von Wau Wau it's all part of the application of political power - whether hits, misses, strident ideology or just opportunism. According to Mahatma Propagandhi, Joseph Goebbels, it is loyalty to the people, loyalty to the idea, loyalty to the movement, and loyalty to the master guide! Which side are you on is usually the final question before either joining someone's political theater or, instead, getting executed. As for either politicos or devas/asuras, I'm not on anyone's side but most assuredly I'm not on the side of immense beings whose leisure and amusement is to play out their designs in the human realm. This of course sounds like fantasy to most people. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: I don't get what the inhabitants of subtle worlds has to do with Rabinowitz's not so subtle hit piece on Obama. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Whether I agree or disagree ... isn't it still the shark's bite?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ravi's email about his own sanity or lack of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sun...@... wrote: Ravi Chivukula chivukula.ravi@ wrote: Damn, mouses = mice, I'm falling off the Beethovenesque standards that Rick has set for me, I love him and I hope I can continue to be in his good books to slowly navigate up on the food chain from FFL - BATGAP. Good luck with that. For what I understand, you have to be recommend by two of the five posters there. Then there is a 30 day probationary period. And then I believe you are required to have BATGAP tatooed above your left ankle. Many have tried, and almost as many have failed. Thanks for this, Ray. Your first line almost caused me to spit out my morning coffee laughing. :-) To be fair, I think there are at least 7 members of BATGAP. And interestingly, possibly as a result of the cross-pollenation of FFL and BATGAP recently, some of them even dare to disagree with each other. Quietly and gently, in a I still affirm that you are almost as highly evolved as I am but on this issue you make be full of shit way (without the actual full of shit line, of course, more like I'm not sure you've considered all the ramifica- tions of believing this). For example, given a quick read-through yesterday, someone's declaration that the scam-healer Trivedi's recent comment that he could clean up the oil spill instantly via his all-powerful Woo Woo if only he was asked to was greeted by (Gawd help us) actual skepticism by at least two people. And when another person tried to advance the POV that Germans who viewed Hitler as their personal portal to God were really finding God there, that got some WTF feedback from a couple of people, too. I'm thinkin' that there is either Trouble In Paradise or a few of the 7 members of BATGAP are in danger of having at least one foot still on the ground. And, since I'm commenting on the differences between the two Rick-spawned groups, I do have to mention at least one significant difference I've noticed. On BATGAP, there seems to actually be...and it's a good thing I don't believe in God because He might strike me with lightning for saying this, given my history... less ego on BATGAP. That is, there is a comparative absence of people trolling for attention and reacting badly if it is not bestowed on them. Part of this may have to do with the No Raging Arguments Here sign clearly posted at the door...those who seem to live for arguments and do everything they can to provoke and prolong them would not be tempted to troll there, because it's not their kinda fishing hole. But this difference also shows up in the cases where someone actually does speak up and not buy into another poster's sales pitch. The reaction of the rejected salesperson does not seem to be a retreat into infantile Tantrum Yoga, ego-assertion, and name-calling. That seems to be a specialty of FFL. Just subjective impressions on my part, not declar- ations of truth. In other words, opinion...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Teaching Virtue
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: Having discipline (as in attending to things) in spiritual practice. Who is more disciplined in their spiritual practice, Buck -- the person who believes that spiritual practice is limited to meditation, going to the domes or to visit the occasional saint and stuff like that, or the person who believes that everything he or she does all day, every day, no matter how insignificant or mundane, is part of his or her spiritual practice?
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Alien in the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear And it shows them pearly white Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe And he keeps it, ah, out of sight Ya know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe Scarlet billows start to spread Fancy gloves, oh, wears old MacHeath, babe So there's never, never a trace of red Bertold Brecht According to Ralph von Wau Wau it's all part of the application of political power - whether hits, misses, strident ideology or just opportunism. According to Mahatma Propagandhi, Joseph Goebbels, it is loyalty to the people, loyalty to the idea, loyalty to the movement, and loyalty to the master guide! Which side are you on is usually the final question before either joining someone's political theater or, instead, getting executed. As for either politicos or devas/asuras, I'm not on anyone's side but most assuredly I'm not on the side of immense beings whose leisure and amusement is to play out their designs in the human realm. Nice post, and excellent last paragraph above, EB. That's my position with regard to Veda-thumpers. They'd like to have it both ways...that the wars, petty ego squabbles and genocides that fill the pages of the Vedic literature they equate with Truth are all metaphors, and not to be taken at face value, but at the same time if they project something like one of the verses suggesting that man can achieve faster-than-lightspeed and travel to other planets, that is Truth Incarnate. :-) The fascinating thing to me when dealing with Veda-thumpers is that they really don't see that the actions of the gods and goddesses described in its pages are *completely human*. Wars are fought and whole tribes are exterminated because some guy boinked someone else's old lady, or ran off with some other god's sacred cow. It's Soap Opera In The Sky. And we're supposed to believe that these petty, completely-ruled-by-emotion, jealous-of-each-other assholes run the fuckin' universe, and that we should not only believe that they are In Charge of our lives but *revere* them for being In Charge by praying to them and offering them shit they want, like rice and ghee and off-key chanting? At least the Christian God is an old fart who mainly sits on a throne and strokes His long, hoary beard and lets His son do the dirty work for Him. In their mythology He doesn't go running around trying to pork other people's wives. If one had to believe that some immense being was In Charge, better this one than the petty gods and goddesses of Brahmaloka in my opinion. This of course sounds like fantasy to most people. It sounds like fantasy to me, too. What is fascin- ating is that there are some -- even on this forum -- who accept it as not only reality but the Ultimate Reality. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] BP tries to clean up the spill
Comedy.com takes you inside the offices of BP as they try to clean up a terrible spill of brown, sticky...uh...coffee. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/09/the-great-bp-coffee-spill_n_606520.html An allegory for our times...
[FairfieldLife] Has Sarah Palin combined nut job with boob job?
I think most here consider Sarah Palin a bit of a boob, and many of the things she says...uh...blown out of proportion to reality. Now even FOX News is speculating that her boobs may have the same relationship to reality. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/09/sarah-palin-breast-implan_n_606596.html
[FairfieldLife] Barry peels Onions
Home Don't need a black belt to peel the onions Krish Ashok The Buddha, in one of his lesser followed pieces of advice, implored his followers to constantly question the status quo, to challenge prevailing customs and mores, and more critically, respect skepticism as a philosophy. And not surprisingly, he wasn't the only founder of a religion to say this - look deeply enough and one finds the Charvaka school of agnosticism that essentially says the same thing. There is even a character in the Ramayana, Jaavaali, who exemplifies the skeptic school of thought. Quite obviously, it is one of the most commonly ignored bits of wisdom in any religion. It unfortunately runs headlong into the ego of an individual. From the time when the schoolteacher informs one that your answers to her questions were not satisfactory and worse, not as good as some of your peers, most people build a volatile trigger for criticism. They say that with age comes maturity but in the manner of thinskinnedness towards others skepticism of one's ideas and abilities, it only gets worse with age. But our minds are complex things and we have learned to build a veritable psychological onion, layers of bad logic that prevent us from realising what the Buddha the Charvaka school were really trying to say. The very first layer is the fallacy that one's community, group, country et al are more correct than the others. This is not very difficult to peel off, as mere knowledge of the rest of the world and its diversity is enough to give one pause about the absolutely supremacy of one's group affiliations. The second layer is a little more tricky. It's the belief that what is old and traditional must not be questioned. It is, for example, the belief that anything arcane and written in Sanskrit is somehow divine and even if we don't understand most of it today, it must have meant something special so best not to take any risks. A particularly insidious offshoot of this belief is the opinion that anyone questioning tradition must first be an expert in it. While it is expected that it is incumbent on the rebel to know what he or she is rebelling about, simply using this as a crutch to dismiss someone's arguments is silly. When a fiveyearold kid asks his father why all the women in the house are wearing uncomfortable black burqas in the middle of summer, responding with First read the Quran and then ask these questions is ridiculous. It does not take a PhD in music to point out, for instance, that someone is singing out of pitch on a TV competition. A straightforward example in most religions is gender bias. Most people do understand that most parts of the world discriminated against women for most of our history and a large part of this bias was enshrined in scripture. So when a Hindu wedding symbolically glorifies the birth of a male child (almost all mantras do), somebody pointing that out does not need to be a Sanskrit black belt to do so. So the next time somebody tells you that before you question custom and tradition, you first need to be an expert, get your onion peeler out.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Teaching Virtue
Having discipline (as in attending to things) in spiritual practice. Who is more disciplined in their spiritual practice, Buck -- the person who believes that spiritual practice is limited to meditation, going to the domes or to visit the occasional saint and stuff like that, or the person who believes that everything he or she does all day, every day, no matter how insignificant or mundane, is part of his or her spiritual practice? Well yes, is all part of the experience and the practice of discernment has a lot to do with the spin of the subtle spiritual system of the soul. I should suspect that science will show it too in time as they would look further in to spirituality. Like seeing the neuro-physiology of sin also by contrast with with what they are finding as the physiology of spiritual practices. In the science as it is in the experience. That contrast might well teach you to repent your ways if the scriptural advice won't. Spiritually, Sin requires a complex definition. It is not a transgression against an arbitrary code of behavior decreed by a whimsical God. The Creator made human a spiritual being, a soul endowed with an individualization of His own divine nature. He gave to the soul, evolved from its own Self, the instruments of a body and a mind with which to perceive and interact with the objects of a maya-manifested universe. If man lives in perfect harmony with the machinations of these principles, he remains a spiritual being in charge of his body and mind. Sin is that which compromises that perfect self-mastery. It has its automatic negative effect to the degree of the influence of delusion with in it -involving no condemnation of an irate God. Man's free-will actions simply harmonize and strengthen the expressed essence of his soul perfection or weaken and degrade it into mortal enslavement. -Yogananda Jai Adi Shankara, -Buck
[FairfieldLife] Re: Checkout Ravi Yogi's FB profile !!
like a troubled 9 year old boy. you could live a more dignified and meaningful life, its not about psychiatric drugs --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula chivukula.r...@... wrote: Will do, but I have been playing with my 4 year old niece for the past 2 days. We had so much fun that you have grossly underestimated my maturity. The existence is fulfilling one more of my last desires of taking care of a baby girl and I just can't explain how much fun I have had with her. My sister-in-law's sick, so there's pain, sadness, happiness, bliss, laughter all thrown in...I took care of my niece and we walk around aimlessly around parks, the whole apartment complex that has a beautiful trail, waterfalls, trees, birds, animals, everything is so alive. Malden, Mass is verily heaven on earth for me now. I have done so much in 2 days I wouldn't be dependent on anyone anymore for my joy, I'm just sharing my joy here in equal measure, you just don't have the heart to feel it. I can tell her some tall tales and she returns the favor in equal measure..LOL..she is such a joy, so innocent that I had to post it. Hope the parents don't read it and get mad at me. I learned it from my brother who makes up as he narrates, the story becomes so exciting and unpredictable and I was impressed. Everyone is a guru that teaches me, stories are more fun that the inane discussions we have here. What is a story is lost on me. Am I a yogi? Guru? Bipolar? Schizophrenic? brother, uncle, husband, lover, partner, father,..roles are lost, I make up as I go - I just don't know who I am and so keep reminding me so I can keep taking you for a ride..LOL... Dil ke Surkh Diwaaron Pe Naam Hai Teraa Naam Hai Teraa...I have your name engraved in the bloody walls of my heart. (The word Shukra is in this song, shukra - surkh - red - bloody) I can leave my body in supreme joy now, my mother in the form of my niece entertaining me. In fact I gave a glimpse of leaving body to my brother's family, they don't realize how lucky they are, I was totally aware, my brother was sitting next to me with a dead pulse. He has forgotten it, how my body was dead but how I was so alive. They are one hell of a lucky family. I had practiced that earlier with my family and freaked my beloved out, my roommate totally ran away and I haven't heard back from him since..:-)..I actually thought I was dying, giving instructions on how to dispose of my body, later realized those were just practice runs...:-). My brother's family's one tough cookie - blessed and open minded. This has enabled me to identify who are in tune with me, they laughed when I said I was leaving my body, though in jest, half scared, I took it seriously and stopped the experiments. But I know how to use it when needed. May be I'm finishing old stories and starting new stories, nothing and everything makes sense.. How are our stories any worse that the ones you have here. Everyone has a right to enjoy their stories including me. You can ignore it like I do yours, I search for my name and only read and respond the emails that have my first name in them..LOL.. The pun is on my family, they were supposed to take care of me, now I take care of them. The whole world prays for me not realizing the irony of it. Now they have forgotten, no one bothers to ask about me now, I do all the work at the house with supreme joy and I forget the role I'm playing but I'm reminded by everyone..soon enough.. Like I said this is just too much for your shukri brain to wrap around..so just use technology to skip my posts.. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:21 PM, shukra69 shukr...@... wrote: your personality maturation is barely that of an adolescent, you need to get help (counselling) to learn how to deal with adulthood.People knowing your age are expecting you to think and act as an adult. I hope you can take that with some good humor and act constructively with that understanding.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ravi's email about his own sanity or lack of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: And, since I'm commenting on the differences between the two Rick-spawned groups, I do have to mention at least one significant difference I've noticed. On BATGAP, there seems to actually be...and it's a good thing I don't believe in God because He might strike me with lightning for saying this, given my history... less ego on BATGAP. Yes, I enjoy the posting on BATGAP, and have noticed what you've just mentioned. I have to say that it seems to be the chat room version of conflict free diamonds, as in conflict free dialog. Yes, there are some disagreements, but they are usually prefaced with a gentle preamble. That is, there is a comparative absence of people trolling for attention and reacting badly if it is not bestowed on them. Part of this may have to do with the No Raging Arguments Here sign clearly posted at the door...those who seem to live for arguments and do everything they can to provoke and prolong them would not be tempted to troll there, because it's not their kinda fishing hole. But this difference also shows up in the cases where someone actually does speak up and not buy into another poster's sales pitch. The reaction of the rejected salesperson does not seem to be a retreat into infantile Tantrum Yoga, ego-assertion, and name-calling. That seems to be a specialty of FFL. Just subjective impressions on my part, not declar- ations of truth. In other words, opinion...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Has Sarah Palin combined nut job with boob job?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: I think most here consider Sarah Palin a bit of a boob, and many of the things she says...uh...blown out of proportion to reality. Now even FOX News is speculating that her boobs may have the same relationship to reality. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/09/sarah-palin-breast-implan_n_606\ 596.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/09/sarah-palin-breast-implan_n_60\ 6596.html What's being suggested is that she just got implants *recently*. The before photo that's being used as proof is from the Runner's World shoot she did in August 2009. Funny thing, though, it appears she must have gotten the implants back in 1984 for the Miss Alaska contest and had them *removed* sometime between then and the Runner's World photo shoot-- --and then had them put back again in time for the T-shirt photo at the Belmont Stakes last weekend. Opsie! Also see this video for a more 3-D view of Miss Alaska: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSdFIDygFwM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSdFIDygFwM (And for the record, it was a liberal blogger, Wonkette, who started the rumor.)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lock-down on the Gulf
I sent your comment to James Fox via Facebook and he responded: I've got more info coming VERY soon that will support my oberservations of a strong military presence in that area. I also have footage from the air of the oil marching into the shores and wet lands coming within 5 hours. Thank you for writing to me and keep in touch, james --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, brian64705 no_reply@ wrote: Thanks! I searched some of the many blogs that have reposted this and NOT ONE has any rebuttal of this story, or update. Well, you're welcome to repost what I wrote on those blogs if you think it'll help. (If you do, please omit my name, or identify me as Swift Loris, which is my handle for blog comments.) I don't have a TV so I am glad to hear this guy has just got a real case of paranoia. He did report though on young guy said his dad worked on the cleanup and that it was far worse than the media were reporting. This was a 15-year-old kid, probably scared by it all, or enjoying scaring the filmmaker. Who knows where he got the idea? There has been talk *in the media* that BP was underestimating the flow, which is accurate, but the government has had independent scientists estimate it, and while it's more than was originally estimated, it's not vastly more--and it's being *reported* that it's more, so that's not a big secret. This filmmaker guy had only been there less than a day. It's not surprising there was a lot of hustle and bustle and tension in the town, because it's one of the big staging areas for the cleanup, and also has some of the worst damage from the oil. Folks there would naturally be on edge and upset. I wouldn't suggest nothing the guy said was true, but he was taking bits and pieces and putting them together in a sensational way that misrepresents what's really going on. The two stories on Anderson Cooper last night were really shocking and may be the reason BP stock dropped another 19% today. I think the biggest percentage drop since the crisis began. See these links: Video: Attorney: BP's 'conduct is criminal' http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/video-attorney-bps-conduct-is-criminal/ Video: Rig survivors: BP ordered shortcut on day of blast http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/video-rig-survivors-bp-ordered-shortcut-on-day-of-blast/ Wow, that second one with the survivors is hard to watch. I hope they're getting treatment for PTSD, because they sure look like they're all struggling with it. Cooper did an excellent job interviewing them, I thought, straightforward but gentle, low key. But...bear in mind that everybody has an axe to grind. The TV people, especially the cable folks, have an interest in promoting the Bad BP theme because it gets them eyeballs. It doesn't hurt to take them with a grain of salt, including Cooper. Lawyers likewise. Cooper gets details wrong from time to time. I haven't seen one TV report or read one print story that is completely accurate. BP is a rotten company, and I hope they get what's coming to them. But that doesn't mean everything they do is wrong or that all their intentions are evil or that there are huge conspiracies between them and the government. As with everything else in the world, there are shades of gray. If you're interested in really knowledgeable discussion of this disaster by oil industry folks--most of whom are not, to say the least, fans of BP--take a look at this blog: http://www.theoildrum.com I've been hanging out there since the beginning of the spill, mostly just absorbing. A lot of the discussion in the comments is way over my head technically, but enough of it is accessible to the layperson to make it worthwhile. The continuing discussion of the spill is just part of what's on the blog; look for the posts with BP Deepwater Oil Spill in the title. The posts themselves have a lot of good information, and there's real meat in the comments. You won't become an expert, but if you stick around for a while, you'll know more than about 99 percent of the public does. It's a good place to check out rumors, too. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: BP sucks, no question, but this is crazy talk. There's been a no-fly zone (enforced by the Coast Guard and the FAA) over the spill site for weeks; it's nothing new. The Coast Guard has regular overflights every few days for the media so photos and video can be shot of the spill site and beaches and marshes and so on. The very last thing they need is for some small plane or helicopter to get in trouble and crash in the area of the spill. There have been constant reports coming in from the media, so the idea that there's some sort of lockdown is absurd. You see the reports on the news every night--NBC has a
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 2010 Summer Session IAA
Dick, I forwarded your post to old TM friends out in the world, and this came back in response, Yes, I've heard that there is quite a change going on with the TM movement. And nothing I am interested in right now for my spiritual path either. I actually did a wonderful yoga treat with the SF Zen center at their facility in Tassajara - a very magical place. Have you ever been or heard of it. I really enjoyed their guest practice in their zendo - a very simple meditation. http://www.sfzc.org/tassajara/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickm...@... wrote: 2010 Summer Session Invincible America Assembly Events on the Maharishi University of Management campus Schedule Summer Session IA Assembly July 3-31 Governor Refresher Block 1 (Governor Recertification Course) July 10 through 24 July Visitors Weekend, MUM July 16-19 TM-Sidhi Program Checking Meeting July 21 Guru Purnima July 25 National Governor Workshops July 26 through 28 Governor Refresher Block 2 July 29 through Aug. 7 Musical Workshops Aug. 2-7 Meditator Residence Course Aug. 13-16 Please note: for information about Governor courses, email mailto:educat...@...educat...@... Contacts for the musical workshops and the Residence Course are listed below. For information on the Visitor's Weekend, see http://www.mum.edu/visitors/welcome.htmlwww.mum.edu/visitors/welcome.html Ongoing Events Advanced Techniques July 17-18 or by request; we will do everything possible to accommodate you. Please call Wally DeVasier at (641) 919-8188. Maharishi Ayurvedic Treatments and Vedic Health Sessions at The Raj Ayurvedic health experts Mark Toomey, Ph.D. or Sankari Wegman, Ph.D. are available by appointment. Call (641) 472-9580, Ext. 6. See http://www.theraj.comwww.theraj.com for more information. Maharishi Light Therapy with Gems is also available at The Raj, and can be scheduled at (641) 472-9580, Ext. 6. Maharishi Vedic Vibration Therapy (MVVT) Experts will be available this summer. To research and apply, see http://www.vedicvibration.comwww.vedicvibration.com or call Deirdre Meehan, (641) 469-6706. Maharishi Vedic Performances If you would like to attend a live Maharishi Vedic Pandit performance-expected to be available many Sundays this summer-please register online: www.invincibleamerica.org/vedic_performances Meditator Residence Courses To apply, please call Wally DeVasier at (641) 919-8188. Consciousness, Creativity and Music: Silence into Sound-enlivening transcendence within and across musical genres A series of performances and hands-on workshops led by a variety of professional Sidha and Governor musicians; may include a Maharishi Gandharva Veda musician. For details, please contact Isabelle Matzkin mailto:imatz...@...imatz...@... Programs for Children The Maharishi School is organizing a series of summer camps from June 21 through July 30, for children ages 5 through 10. For details, contact Laura Bordow, (641) 472-9400 Ext. #5070, or email mailto:lbor...@...lbor...@... Area Activities If you are considering bringing your family or simply want to enjoy 200% of life, walking trails, swimming and other sports, art, music and theatrical events, and a variety of restaurants are all available in Fairfield and nearby communities. For more detailed information, check out this website: http://www.fairfieldfirst.biz/Fairfield_First!/Buzz.htmlhttp://www.fairfieldfirst.biz/Fairfield_First!/Buzz.html You may also contact Bob and Carol Markowitz at 641-919-7045. They will be happy to help. http://invincibleamerica.org/unsubscribe/Click here to unsubscribe
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Alien in the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear And it shows them pearly white Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe And he keeps it, ah, out of sight Ya know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe Scarlet billows start to spread Fancy gloves, oh, wears old MacHeath, babe So there's never, never a trace of red Bertold Brecht Ugh. That really gunks up the Blitzstein translation: Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear And he shows them pearly white Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear And he keeps it out of sight When the shark bites with his teeth, dear Scarlet billows start to spread Fancy gloves, though, wears Macheath, dear So there's not a trace of red But the original German is so much better: Und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne Und die trägt er im Gesicht Und Macheath, der hat ein Messer Doch das Messer sieht man nicht Ach, es sind des Haifischs Flossen Rot, wenn dieser Blut vergießt Mackie Messer trägt 'nen Handschuh Drauf man keine Untat liest Last verse (usually omitted in the popular versions): Und die minderjährige Witwe Deren Namen jeder weiß Wachte auf und war geschändet Mackie, welches war dein Preis? Literal translation: And the underage widow Whose name everyone knows Woke up and was [found she had been] raped Mack, what was your price [did you charge]? Bertolt Brecht himself singing, 1928: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXJ3OXWaOY
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lock-down on the Gulf
He's posted video of his flight over Grand Isle yesterday as well as interviews on the streets of New Orleans on his YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/jamescfox --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, brian64705 no_re...@... wrote: I sent your comment to James Fox via Facebook and he responded: I've got more info coming VERY soon that will support my oberservations of a strong military presence in that area. I also have footage from the air of the oil marching into the shores and wet lands coming within 5 hours. Thank you for writing to me and keep in touch, james --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, brian64705 no_reply@ wrote: Thanks! I searched some of the many blogs that have reposted this and NOT ONE has any rebuttal of this story, or update. Well, you're welcome to repost what I wrote on those blogs if you think it'll help. (If you do, please omit my name, or identify me as Swift Loris, which is my handle for blog comments.) I don't have a TV so I am glad to hear this guy has just got a real case of paranoia. He did report though on young guy said his dad worked on the cleanup and that it was far worse than the media were reporting. This was a 15-year-old kid, probably scared by it all, or enjoying scaring the filmmaker. Who knows where he got the idea? There has been talk *in the media* that BP was underestimating the flow, which is accurate, but the government has had independent scientists estimate it, and while it's more than was originally estimated, it's not vastly more--and it's being *reported* that it's more, so that's not a big secret. This filmmaker guy had only been there less than a day. It's not surprising there was a lot of hustle and bustle and tension in the town, because it's one of the big staging areas for the cleanup, and also has some of the worst damage from the oil. Folks there would naturally be on edge and upset. I wouldn't suggest nothing the guy said was true, but he was taking bits and pieces and putting them together in a sensational way that misrepresents what's really going on. The two stories on Anderson Cooper last night were really shocking and may be the reason BP stock dropped another 19% today. I think the biggest percentage drop since the crisis began. See these links: Video: Attorney: BP's 'conduct is criminal' http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/video-attorney-bps-conduct-is-criminal/ Video: Rig survivors: BP ordered shortcut on day of blast http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/video-rig-survivors-bp-ordered-shortcut-on-day-of-blast/ Wow, that second one with the survivors is hard to watch. I hope they're getting treatment for PTSD, because they sure look like they're all struggling with it. Cooper did an excellent job interviewing them, I thought, straightforward but gentle, low key. But...bear in mind that everybody has an axe to grind. The TV people, especially the cable folks, have an interest in promoting the Bad BP theme because it gets them eyeballs. It doesn't hurt to take them with a grain of salt, including Cooper. Lawyers likewise. Cooper gets details wrong from time to time. I haven't seen one TV report or read one print story that is completely accurate. BP is a rotten company, and I hope they get what's coming to them. But that doesn't mean everything they do is wrong or that all their intentions are evil or that there are huge conspiracies between them and the government. As with everything else in the world, there are shades of gray. If you're interested in really knowledgeable discussion of this disaster by oil industry folks--most of whom are not, to say the least, fans of BP--take a look at this blog: http://www.theoildrum.com I've been hanging out there since the beginning of the spill, mostly just absorbing. A lot of the discussion in the comments is way over my head technically, but enough of it is accessible to the layperson to make it worthwhile. The continuing discussion of the spill is just part of what's on the blog; look for the posts with BP Deepwater Oil Spill in the title. The posts themselves have a lot of good information, and there's real meat in the comments. You won't become an expert, but if you stick around for a while, you'll know more than about 99 percent of the public does. It's a good place to check out rumors, too. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: BP sucks, no question, but this is crazy talk. There's been a no-fly zone (enforced by the Coast Guard and the FAA) over the spill site for weeks; it's nothing new. The Coast Guard has regular overflights every few days for the media so photos and video can be shot of the spill site
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lock-down on the Gulf
Brian, I looked at the NY Times this morning and found I have to take back some of what I wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/us/10access.html?themc=th Apparently some reporters' access *has* been restricted, more or less arbitrarily. But there doesn't seem to be any reason for it other than as a function of BP's overall reflexive, bureaucratic lack of transparency; it isn't a matter of trying to hide some far worse catastrophe than we know about. The stated policy of both the government and BP is to accommodate journalists as much as possible. I was also wrong about the no-fly zone. Small planes *are* allowed to fly over the site if they first get permission from the FAA--although, again, some reporters have been denied permission. It isn't so much a no-fly zone as it is restricted airspace. Sorry for misleading you on those points! Do read the Times article for more details. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, brian64705 no_reply@ wrote: Thanks! I searched some of the many blogs that have reposted this and NOT ONE has any rebuttal of this story, or update. Well, you're welcome to repost what I wrote on those blogs if you think it'll help. (If you do, please omit my name, or identify me as Swift Loris, which is my handle for blog comments.) I don't have a TV so I am glad to hear this guy has just got a real case of paranoia. He did report though on young guy said his dad worked on the cleanup and that it was far worse than the media were reporting. This was a 15-year-old kid, probably scared by it all, or enjoying scaring the filmmaker. Who knows where he got the idea? There has been talk *in the media* that BP was underestimating the flow, which is accurate, but the government has had independent scientists estimate it, and while it's more than was originally estimated, it's not vastly more--and it's being *reported* that it's more, so that's not a big secret. This filmmaker guy had only been there less than a day. It's not surprising there was a lot of hustle and bustle and tension in the town, because it's one of the big staging areas for the cleanup, and also has some of the worst damage from the oil. Folks there would naturally be on edge and upset. I wouldn't suggest nothing the guy said was true, but he was taking bits and pieces and putting them together in a sensational way that misrepresents what's really going on. The two stories on Anderson Cooper last night were really shocking and may be the reason BP stock dropped another 19% today. I think the biggest percentage drop since the crisis began. See these links: Video: Attorney: BP's 'conduct is criminal' http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/video-attorney-bps-conduct-is-criminal/ Video: Rig survivors: BP ordered shortcut on day of blast http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/video-rig-survivors-bp-ordered-shortcut-on-day-of-blast/ Wow, that second one with the survivors is hard to watch. I hope they're getting treatment for PTSD, because they sure look like they're all struggling with it. Cooper did an excellent job interviewing them, I thought, straightforward but gentle, low key. But...bear in mind that everybody has an axe to grind. The TV people, especially the cable folks, have an interest in promoting the Bad BP theme because it gets them eyeballs. It doesn't hurt to take them with a grain of salt, including Cooper. Lawyers likewise. Cooper gets details wrong from time to time. I haven't seen one TV report or read one print story that is completely accurate. BP is a rotten company, and I hope they get what's coming to them. But that doesn't mean everything they do is wrong or that all their intentions are evil or that there are huge conspiracies between them and the government. As with everything else in the world, there are shades of gray. If you're interested in really knowledgeable discussion of this disaster by oil industry folks--most of whom are not, to say the least, fans of BP--take a look at this blog: http://www.theoildrum.com I've been hanging out there since the beginning of the spill, mostly just absorbing. A lot of the discussion in the comments is way over my head technically, but enough of it is accessible to the layperson to make it worthwhile. The continuing discussion of the spill is just part of what's on the blog; look for the posts with BP Deepwater Oil Spill in the title. The posts themselves have a lot of good information, and there's real meat in the comments. You won't become an expert, but if you stick around for a while, you'll know more than about 99 percent of the public does. It's a good place to check out rumors, too. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: BP sucks, no question, but this is crazy talk. There's been a no-fly zone (enforced by the Coast
[FairfieldLife] Re: Stephen Hawking on Religion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Life may be astoundingly abundant out there. Hawking is refusing to see that life is a gimme -- built into the subtle laws of physics -- and if this is so, then life isn't so damned insignificant as he's framing it. He'd argue that even if life is automatic, we're in but one universe where that is true -- a so-called Goldilocks universe that is just right for life, but that there's an infinity of universes that might have no life possible. I'd say that decades in a cripple's chair is tilting his views about God's ability to dance. Gosh, what a hideous thing to say. And all because Hawking doesn't share your views, but do you really think he hasn't considered alternatives. Your statement is an insult based on ifs you'd *like* to be true. I also see why science is going to win. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works. When asked by ABC News' Diane Sawyer about the biggest mystery he'd like solved, he said, 'I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.'... 'What could define God [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of that God,' Hawking told Sawyer. 'They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship. When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible.'... http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Technology/stephen-hawking-religion-science-win/story?id=10830164 I love his advice to his children...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Stephen Hawking on Religion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Life may be astoundingly abundant out there. Hawking is refusing to see that life is a gimme -- built into the subtle laws of physics -- and if this is so, then life isn't so damned insignificant as he's framing it. He'd argue that even if life is automatic, we're in but one universe where that is true -- a so-called Goldilocks universe that is just right for life, but that there's an infinity of universes that might have no life possible. I'd say that decades in a cripple's chair is tilting his views about God's ability to dance. Edg We should remember that Hawking has a history of changing his views on a dime. Who knows what he would say tomorrow when he gets up either on the right or left side of his bed. Hawking doesn't change views on a dime, he's a scientist. He proposes explanations and they stand for as long as the evidence supports them. New evidence, new theories needed. Perhaps you doubt his credentials because he is always quick to admit when he's in error. No absolutes there. Big difference between all that and religions which can't change their POV without ceasing to be defined by the revelations that started them in the first place. Not without a lot of side-stepping and special pleading anyway. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works. When asked by ABC News' Diane Sawyer about the biggest mystery he'd like solved, he said, 'I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.'... 'What could define God [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of that God,' Hawking told Sawyer. 'They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship. When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible.'... http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Technology/stephen-hawking-religion-science-win/story?id=10830164 I love his advice to his children...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Stephen Hawking on Religion + Psycho Girlfriend 1-7
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: Hawking doesn't change views on a dime, he's a scientist. He proposes explanations and they stand for as long as the evidence supports them. New evidence, new theories needed. Perhaps you doubt his credentials because he is always quick to admit when he's in error. No absolutes there. Big difference between all that and religions which can't change their POV without ceasing to be defined by the revelations that started them in the first place. Well said...here and in the previous post. The button-pushability of the God freak and the way they feel they have to lash out at and demonize the button-pusher never ceases to astound me. I really like your last sentence. I think it nails the issue. The God freaks have spent so much time investing in a concept and belief system and have *identified with it* so strongly that they're terrified that if the belief goes away, so do they. It's as if when one of these beliefs is threatened, they actually feel that *they* are being threatened, because they've come to think that without that belief, they would have no life. If you want a concept to ponder, try to imagine the God who would not only not be ashamed by having such people stick up for him, but be proud of them. Psycho God. And now for something completely different... The only segue here is the word Psycho. These links were posted on another forum by someone who posts here from time to time but who shall remain nameless. I'll take the fall for this one all by myself. :-) This is an example of a new phenomenon, the YouTube TV series. Very well done and acted, IMO. And if you've ever *had* a Psycho Girlfriend, you'll dig it. Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMoGj9QtZts Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqNTdcO_myU Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaWFM3VyfJ0 Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anblIuylg-A Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syWJlRHpXZY Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPJ92hPwKDo Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jj-Aph_Ecw
[FairfieldLife] Re: Joran Van der Sloot Jyotish
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip And now you're putting words in my mouth, even though I've made it clear on any number of occasions--including to you--that I'm highly dubious of astrology in general. So why keep defending it? As I've already pointed out, you can't productively critique something if you don't understand how it's said to work. I haven't been defending it, I've been trying to explain it to you. But it's clear you don't want to do the mental work necessary to get clear on it; you'd rather just toss off your own harebrained straw-man criticisms. Oh right, I don't agree with you that it works in *any* noticeable way so *I* must have created a straw-man to argue against. This line of debate sounds familiar, you can't prove it so it's *me* that's wrong, I'm just too stupid to understand you. Duh. And there's me who actually learned how to draw up horoscopes MANUALLY, thus realising the amazing truth behind the maths. It's bollocks. You wont find a jyotishee to admit that because they probably all use computers and who knows, maybe they still think the sun goes round the earth. Just a straw-man of course, the fact it makes no physical sense is irrelevant to how well it works* Basta. Same to you I'm sure. * Just in case you don't get that sarcasm, I am waiting really patiently for some evidence, you'd think it'd be forthcoming and unarguable after all these years but I've not seen it. I've looked too, and seen jyotishees myself and met countless believers, all to no avail. Nothing beyond wishful thinking, projection and selective editing. Funny eh? And also rather suspicious, still maybe the the practise that seems not to work actually does but untraceably, maybe that's what I don't understand eh? Call me fussy but I like things to be demonstrable in a way that discounts any alternative explanations, especially woo-woo or self-delusion. That's just me, moon in sagittarius.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Stephen Hawking on Religion
On Jun 10, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Hugo wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Life may be astoundingly abundant out there. Hawking is refusing to see that life is a gimme -- built into the subtle laws of physics -- and if this is so, then life isn't so damned insignificant as he's framing it. He'd argue that even if life is automatic, we're in but one universe where that is true -- a so-called Goldilocks universe that is just right for life, but that there's an infinity of universes that might have no life possible. I'd say that decades in a cripple's chair is tilting his views about God's ability to dance. Gosh, what a hideous thing to say. And all because Hawking doesn't share your views, Hideous is right. Edg, get some help. I'd say that decades (or at least years) of having people not take you as seriously as you feel you're owed has considerably warped your views on how to fight fair without resorting to cheap, mean-spirited personal shots. but do you really think he hasn't considered alternatives. Your statement is an insult based on ifs you'd *like* to be true. I also see why science is going to win.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Stephen Hawking on Religion + Psycho Girlfriend 1-7
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: This is an example of a new phenomenon, the YouTube TV series. Very well done and acted, IMO. And if you've ever *had* a Psycho Girlfriend, you'll dig it. You mean there's another sort?* Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMoGj9QtZts Hilarious but the sort of thing I can only watch a bit of at a time. Scarily familiar I'm afraid to say. I can't imagine what horrors lurk in the rest of the episodes, I shall watch later once I've had a drink to steady my nerves. *That's a joke everyone. Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqNTdcO_myU Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaWFM3VyfJ0 Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anblIuylg-A Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syWJlRHpXZY Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPJ92hPwKDo Psycho Girlfriend, Episode 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jj-Aph_Ecw
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lock-down on the Gulf
This story is reported by Mel Fabregas. He lost credibility with me by pouring it on so thick. So, I put his name into a google search box expecting he would show up as an extremist. Sure enough, the blurb on the very first search hit says: The Veritas Show with Mel Fabregas is a weekly show exploring exopolitics, UFO and paranornmal phenomenona, conspiracies and current world events. Now, I'm not saying anything he says is not true, because I don't know, but personally I would not forward stuff like this around unless it were corroborated by more sources. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Thu, 6/10/10, brian64705 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: brian64705 no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lock-down on the Gulf To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 9:01 AM I sent your comment to James Fox via Facebook and he responded: I've got more info coming VERY soon that will support my oberservations of a strong military presence in that area. I also have footage from the air of the oil marching into the shores and wet lands coming within 5 hours. Thank you for writing to me and keep in touch, james --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, brian64705 no_reply@ wrote: Thanks! I searched some of the many blogs that have reposted this and NOT ONE has any rebuttal of this story, or update. Well, you're welcome to repost what I wrote on those blogs if you think it'll help. (If you do, please omit my name, or identify me as Swift Loris, which is my handle for blog comments.) I don't have a TV so I am glad to hear this guy has just got a real case of paranoia. He did report though on young guy said his dad worked on the cleanup and that it was far worse than the media were reporting. This was a 15-year-old kid, probably scared by it all, or enjoying scaring the filmmaker. Who knows where he got the idea? There has been talk *in the media* that BP was underestimating the flow, which is accurate, but the government has had independent scientists estimate it, and while it's more than was originally estimated, it's not vastly more--and it's being *reported* that it's more, so that's not a big secret. This filmmaker guy had only been there less than a day. It's not surprising there was a lot of hustle and bustle and tension in the town, because it's one of the big staging areas for the cleanup, and also has some of the worst damage from the oil. Folks there would naturally be on edge and upset. I wouldn't suggest nothing the guy said was true, but he was taking bits and pieces and putting them together in a sensational way that misrepresents what's really going on. The two stories on Anderson Cooper last night were really shocking and may be the reason BP stock dropped another 19% today. I think the biggest percentage drop since the crisis began. See these links: Video: Attorney: BP's 'conduct is criminal' http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/video-attorney-bps-conduct-is-criminal/ Video: Rig survivors: BP ordered shortcut on day of blast http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/video-rig-survivors-bp-ordered-shortcut-on-day-of-blast/ Wow, that second one with the survivors is hard to watch. I hope they're getting treatment for PTSD, because they sure look like they're all struggling with it. Cooper did an excellent job interviewing them, I thought, straightforward but gentle, low key. But...bear in mind that everybody has an axe to grind. The TV people, especially the cable folks, have an interest in promoting the Bad BP theme because it gets them eyeballs. It doesn't hurt to take them with a grain of salt, including Cooper. Lawyers likewise. Cooper gets details wrong from time to time. I haven't seen one TV report or read one print story that is completely accurate. BP is a rotten company, and I hope they get what's coming to them. But that doesn't mean everything they do is wrong or that all their intentions are evil or that there are huge conspiracies between them and the government. As with everything else in the world, there are shades of gray. If you're interested in really knowledgeable discussion of this disaster by oil industry folks--most of whom are not, to say the least, fans of BP--take a look at this blog: http://www.theoildrum.com I've been hanging out there since the beginning of the spill, mostly just absorbing. A lot of the discussion in the comments is way over my head technically, but enough of it is accessible to the layperson to make it worthwhile. The continuing discussion of the spill is just part of what's on the blog; look for the posts with BP Deepwater Oil Spill in the title. The posts themselves have a lot of good information, and there's real meat in the
[FairfieldLife] Re: Stephen Hawking on Religion
Hideous? Hideous? Dictionary: 1 : offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly 2 : morally offensive Hugo you're getting a D- on your commentsee me after class. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Life may be astoundingly abundant out there. Hawking is refusing to see that life is a gimme -- built into the subtle laws of physics -- and if this is so, then life isn't so damned insignificant as he's framing it. He'd argue that even if life is automatic, we're in but one universe where that is true -- a so-called Goldilocks universe that is just right for life, but that there's an infinity of universes that might have no life possible. I'd say that decades in a cripple's chair is tilting his views about God's ability to dance. Gosh, what a hideous thing to say. And all because Hawking doesn't share your views, but do you really think he hasn't considered alternatives. Your statement is an insult based on ifs you'd *like* to be true. I also see why science is going to win. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works. When asked by ABC News' Diane Sawyer about the biggest mystery he'd like solved, he said, 'I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.'... 'What could define God [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of that God,' Hawking told Sawyer. 'They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship. When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible.'... http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Technology/stephen-hawking-religion-science-win/story?id=10830164 I love his advice to his children...
[FairfieldLife] Churchill story
During a recent Internet search I came across the following story about Winston Churchill that was posted by akasha_108 back in 2005 (cf. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/61698): One day, it must of been in his conservative days -- he jumped parties two or three times for political expediency -- he was at the long trough urinal in the House of Commons. A labor party leader came in and Winston proceeded to shuffle down to the far end of the urinal. The labor leader, said, 'Lord Churchill, you appear a bit stand-offish today.' Winston, grunted and coughed out, 'I am concerned about the labor's party grand propensity to nationalize everything of substance they lay their eyes on.' I love the story and would like to know the source. I cannot figure out how to email akasha_108 directly. It also appears that he hasn't posted here in several years. If someone knows akasha_108, I would appreciate it if you passed this message to them. Alternatively, if you know the source of the story yourself, I would appreciate a reply to this post. Thank you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Alien und die minderjährige Witwe
Very nice link ... hearing Brecht singing this is like being there again. Some years ago I listened to an analysis of the English to German translation. The German ended up to be much more subtle and nuanced. It was way beyond Bobby Darin. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Bertold Brecht Ugh. That really gunks up the Blitzstein translation: But the original German is so much better: Und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne Und die trägt er im Gesicht Und Macheath, der hat ein Messer Doch das Messer sieht man nicht Ach, es sind des Haifischs Flossen Rot, wenn dieser Blut vergießt Mackie Messer trägt 'nen Handschuh Drauf man keine Untat liest Last verse (usually omitted in the popular versions): Und die minderjährige Witwe Deren Namen jeder weiß Wachte auf und war geschändet Mackie, welches war dein Preis? Literal translation: And the underage widow Whose name everyone knows Woke up and was [found she had been] raped Mack, what was your price [did you charge]? Bertolt Brecht himself singing, 1928: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXJ3OXWaOY
[FairfieldLife] Re: Churchill story
I find google the best way to find anything. I searched for your quote and only one hit came up... our very own Fairfield Life in 2005: http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com/msg17544.html was the sole hit for the search: http://www.google.com/search?client=safarirls=enq=churchill+%22nationalize+everything+of+substance+they+lay+their+eyes+on%22ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8 My favorite Churchill quote as told to me in 1982 by my SCI teacher in London, John Windsor... One day, Clement Attlee (the opposition at the time) visited Churchill in number 10 with important details to discuss. Churchill was occupied in the toilet at the time with constipation, but he promised he would only be five minutes. After ten, Attlee grew very irritated and ordered one of the workers in number 10 to fetch Churchill. Churchill told the worker he would be another five minutes. After another 10, Attlee was furious and ordered the worker once again to fetch Churchill, who was still in the bathroom. The worker approached Churchill, told him of the situation, and Churchill replied, Tell Mr. Attlee I can only deal with one shit at a time. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, parminides parmini...@... wrote: During a recent Internet search I came across the following story about Winston Churchill that was posted by akasha_108 back in 2005 (cf. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/61698): One day, it must of been in his conservative days -- he jumped parties two or three times for political expediency -- he was at the long trough urinal in the House of Commons. A labor party leader came in and Winston proceeded to shuffle down to the far end of the urinal. The labor leader, said, 'Lord Churchill, you appear a bit stand-offish today.' Winston, grunted and coughed out, 'I am concerned about the labor's party grand propensity to nationalize everything of substance they lay their eyes on.' I love the story and would like to know the source. I cannot figure out how to email akasha_108 directly. It also appears that he hasn't posted here in several years. If someone knows akasha_108, I would appreciate it if you passed this message to them. Alternatively, if you know the source of the story yourself, I would appreciate a reply to this post. Thank you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Alien in the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear And it shows them pearly white Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe And he keeps it, ah, out of sight Ya know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe Scarlet billows start to spread Fancy gloves, oh, wears old MacHeath, babe So there's never, never a trace of red Bertold Brecht According to Ralph von Wau Wau it's all part of the application of political power - whether hits, misses, strident ideology or just opportunism. According to Mahatma Propagandhi, Joseph Goebbels, it is loyalty to the people, loyalty to the idea, loyalty to the movement, and loyalty to the master guide! Which side are you on is usually the final question before either joining someone's political theater or, instead, getting executed. As for either politicos or devas/asuras, I'm not on anyone's side but most assuredly I'm not on the side of immense beings whose leisure and amusement is to play out their designs in the human realm. This of course sounds like fantasy to most people. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: I don't get what the inhabitants of subtle worlds has to do with Rabinowitz's not so subtle hit piece on Obama. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptybill@ wrote: Whether I agree or disagree ... isn't it still the shark's bite? EB, if I understand you correctly, you're saying the gods are as crazy for political power as we are, so in the larger scheme of things, and since it's all about the shark's bite, (raping) there's no point in taking sides. O.K. it's a bit obtuse and I get that, but I'm still curious about *why* you posted Rabinowitz's article. I agree, no matter the endless misery gods or humans bring upon themselves, everyone, not just those who have taken bodhisattva vows, have a responsibility to help everyone find happiness and freedom from suffering. The question is, since everyone has a different idea about the causes of happiness and causes leading to suffering, how do we go about helping others without getting wrapped up in taking sides? At the heart of every political ideology there is a desire to alleviate suffering but eventually it falls short, ends up as a struggle for power, implodes, and makes way for a new ideology. The pendulum swings from left to right, attempting homeostasis somewhere in the center. Ideologies operate in the relative life, in the field of change, in disagreements, of taking sides and war. Maharishi's great gift to the world and gift from other enlightened beings who have graced our planet, leads us to Being, uniting us on the level of consciousness, and making us responsible for own happiness. I'll buy that over a political ideology, any day. That said, I'm still willing to take a stand for a political ideology that I believe can best serve our country at this point in time. The bottom line for me is that we have to learn how to work the nuts and bolts of political machinery as best we can so we can avoid driving our economy, educational system, health care, etc, etc, over a cliff.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Churchill story
[I find google the best way to find anything. I searched for your quote and only one hit came up... our very own Fairfield Life in 2005] Your mistake (and mine) was to assume that akasha_108's quotes were verbatum. They aren't. TurquoiseB suggested that I google Churchill stand-offish. This was much more fruitful, and I was able to find the source of story. From the bottom of the page of http://www.inc.com/magazine/19881101/6028.html: William Manchester, in his biography of Winston Churchill, The Last Lion, relates an incident from the 1940s. Churchill's archrival in Parliament was Labour leader Clement Atlee. One day in the men's room, Churchill arrived to find Atlee standing at the urinal trough. He positioned himself as far away as possible. 'Feeling standoffish today, are we, Winston?' Atlee asked. 'That's right,' Churchill snapped. 'Every time you see something big, you want to nationalize it.' Thank you all for quickly coming to my aid.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Churchill story
I just noticed that my favorite Churchill story and brian64705's both involved Clement Atlee and the bathroom!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lock-down on the Gulf
Thom Hartmann is reporting on this morning and talking with a congressman who is going to look into this. This story also broke a week ago when he interviewed marine biologist Riki Ott and she reported that the pilot she was flying with over the area mentioned flight restrictions. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/249257 gullible fool wrote: This story is reported by Mel Fabregas. He lost credibility with me by pouring it on so thick. So, I put his name into a google search box expecting he would show up as an extremist. Sure enough, the blurb on the very first search hit says: The Veritas Show with Mel Fabregas is a weekly show exploring exopolitics, UFO and paranornmal phenomenona, conspiracies and current world events. Now, I'm not saying anything he says is not true, because I don't know, but personally I would not forward stuff like this around unless it were corroborated by more sources. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Thu, 6/10/10, brian64705 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: brian64705 no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lock-down on the Gulf To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 9:01 AM I sent your comment to James Fox via Facebook and he responded: I've got more info coming VERY soon that will support my oberservations of a strong military presence in that area. I also have footage from the air of the oil marching into the shores and wet lands coming within 5 hours. Thank you for writing to me and keep in touch, james --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, brian64705 no_reply@ wrote: Thanks! I searched some of the many blogs that have reposted this and NOT ONE has any rebuttal of this story, or update. Well, you're welcome to repost what I wrote on those blogs if you think it'll help. (If you do, please omit my name, or identify me as Swift Loris, which is my handle for blog comments.) I don't have a TV so I am glad to hear this guy has just got a real case of paranoia. He did report though on young guy said his dad worked on the cleanup and that it was far worse than the media were reporting. This was a 15-year-old kid, probably scared by it all, or enjoying scaring the filmmaker. Who knows where he got the idea? There has been talk *in the media* that BP was underestimating the flow, which is accurate, but the government has had independent scientists estimate it, and while it's more than was originally estimated, it's not vastly more--and it's being *reported* that it's more, so that's not a big secret. This filmmaker guy had only been there less than a day. It's not surprising there was a lot of hustle and bustle and tension in the town, because it's one of the big staging areas for the cleanup, and also has some of the worst damage from the oil. Folks there would naturally be on edge and upset. I wouldn't suggest nothing the guy said was true, but he was taking bits and pieces and putting them together in a sensational way that misrepresents what's really going on. The two stories on Anderson Cooper last night were really shocking and may be the reason BP stock dropped another 19% today. I think the biggest percentage drop since the crisis began. See these links: Video: Attorney: BP's 'conduct is criminal' http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/video-attorney-bps-conduct-is-criminal/ Video: Rig survivors: BP ordered shortcut on day of blast http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/video-rig-survivors-bp-ordered-shortcut-on-day-of-blast/ Wow, that second one with the survivors is hard to watch. I hope they're getting treatment for PTSD, because they sure look like they're all struggling with it. Cooper did an excellent job interviewing them, I thought, straightforward but gentle, low key. But...bear in mind that everybody has an axe to grind. The TV people, especially the cable folks, have an interest in promoting the Bad BP theme because it gets them eyeballs. It doesn't hurt to take them with a grain of salt, including Cooper. Lawyers likewise. Cooper gets details wrong from time to time. I haven't seen one TV report or read one print story that is completely accurate. BP is a rotten company, and I hope they get what's coming to them. But that doesn't mean everything they do is wrong or that all their intentions are evil or that there are huge conspiracies between them and the government. As with everything else in the world, there are shades of gray. If you're interested in really knowledgeable discussion of this disaster by oil industry folks--most of whom are not, to say the least, fans of BP--take a look at this blog: http://www.theoildrum.com I've been hanging out there since the beginning of the
[FairfieldLife] Amreeka -- movie
Here's another little indie gem I watched on Netflix last night: http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Amreeka/70112460 It's a story about a Palestinian woman and her son who travel from the West Bank to Chicago to stay with her sister right as the US is bombing Iraq in 2003.
[FairfieldLife] Are you getting diabetes from your computer?
How are those blood sugar levels after spending hours on FFL? (NaturalNews) Most people are familiar with type-1 diabetes and type-2 diabetes, but did you know researchers have discovered a third type of diabetes? Type-3 diabetes, as they are calling it, affects people who are extra sensitive to electrical devices that emit dirty electricity. Type-3 diabetics actually experience spikes in blood sugar and an increased heart rate when exposed to electrical pollution (electropollution) from things like computers, televisions, cordless and mobile phones, and even compact fluorescent light bulbs. http://www.naturalnews.com/028967_electropollution_diabetes.html
[FairfieldLife] BP buys oil spill related search terms
Will these crooks know no end to cover their butts? http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/306996 Whether it’s a $50 million TV commercial blitz or BP CEO Tony Hayward snapping to a reporter that he wanted “his life back,” the company behind the nation’s worst oil disaster in history can’t seem to get its message right. Now, the latest media misstep, according to media watchdogs and industry experts: the company has been buying up the top Internet search terms such as “oil spill” or “BP” – a move that places its corporate website at the top of search results pages. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [FairfieldLife] BP buys oil spill related search terms
-Original Message- From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bhairitu Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:33 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] BP buys oil spill related search terms Will these crooks know no end to cover their butts? http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/306996 Whether it's a $50 million TV commercial blitz or BP CEO Tony Hayward snapping to a reporter that he wanted his life back, the company behind the nation's worst oil disaster in history can't seem to get its message right. Now, the latest media misstep, according to media watchdogs and industry experts: the company has been buying up the top Internet search terms such as oil spill or BP - a move that places its corporate website at the top of search results pages. You can't buy search terms or buy your way to the top of the organic search listings. They're just buying pay-per-click ads, bidding on various keywords, which any relevant site could do, and bidding high enough to rank at or near the top. Can't say that I blame them for trying to tell their side of the story, as long as it's truthful. If it isn't it'll backfire on them. They're under a lot of scrutiny.
[FairfieldLife] Fascinating Newage bias on Huffpost
Recently here and on BATGAP folks have been discussing gullibility, as in the ability to believe that someone like Trivedi can claim that he can clean up the oil spill via his powerful Woo Woo and have them believe it completely, for no other reason than that he says he can. When the twif who believes this was called on it, she cited the research on his website. Some who checked out that supposed research, as I remember, found it weaker and less substantial even than the TM research. But at least something existed, as I remember the thread here. Check out this article, published by Huffington Post today under the headline below. Sounds impressive, eh? I was curious to see what the cited evidence would be. Imagine my surprise to find none. I would be less surprised if I had posted this article here or on BATGAP without comment and many people not only did not notice that the evidence touted in the headline was never presented, but found the theoretician's theory convincing enough that they ran out and bought the book. After all, many of them still believe that they can fly someday, with similar evidence -- someone saying it was so. But the Huffington Post? What has *happened* to rational thought that editors of a major news portal would allow this headline to slip through? What Happens When You Die? Evidence Suggests Time Simply Reboots by Robert Lanza, M.D. Scientist, Theoretician What happens when we die? Do we rot into the ground, or do we go to heaven (or hell, if we've been bad)? Experiments suggest the answer is simpler than anyone thought. Without the glue of consciousness, time essentially reboots. The mystery of life and death can't be examined by visiting the Galapagos or looking through a microscope. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves. We wake and find ourselves in the present. There are stairs below us, which we seem to have climbed; there are stairs above us, which go upward into the unknown future. But the mind stands at the door by which we entered and gives us the memories by which we go about our day. Everything is ordered and predictable. We're like cuckoo birds who appear through a door each morning. We fancy there's a clockwork set in motion at the beginning of time. But if you remove everything from space, what's left? Nothing. The same applies for time -- you can't put it in a jar. You can't see through the bone surrounding your brain (everything you experience is information in your mind). Biocentrism tells us space and time aren't objects -- they're the mind's tools for putting everything together. I was a young boy when I realized there was something unexplainable about life that I simply didn't understand. I learned this from one of the last smiths in New England, when I, as a child, tried to capture a woodchuck on his property. Over his shop a chimney cap went round and round, squeak, squeak, rattle, rattle. One day the blacksmith came out with his shotgun and blew it off. The noise stopped. Mr. O'Donnell pounded metal on his anvil all day. No, I thought, I didn't want to be caught by him. Yet, I had my purpose. The woodchuck's hole was in such close proximity to Mr. O'Donnell's shop that I could hear the bellows fanning his forge. I crawled noiselessly through the long grass, occasionally stirring a grasshopper or a butterfly. After setting a new steel trap that I had just purchased at the hardware store, I took a stake and, rock in hand, pounded it into the ground. When I looked up, I saw Mr. O'Donnell standing there, his eyes glaring. I said nothing, trying to restrain myself from crying. Give me that trap, child, he said, and come with me. I followed him into his shop, which was crammed with all manner of tools and chimes of different shapes and sounds hanging from the ceiling. Starting the forge, Mr. O'Donnell tossed the trap over the coals and a tiny flame appeared underneath, getting hotter until, with a puff it burst into flame. This thing can injure dogs, and even children! he said, poking the coals with a fork. When the trap was red hot, he took it from the forge, and pounded it into a little square with his hammer. He said nothing while the metal cooled. At length, he patted me upon the shoulder, and then took up a few sketches of a dragonfly. I tell you what, he said. I'll give you 50 cents for every dragonfly you catch. I said that would be fun, and when I parted I was so excited I forgot about my new trap. The next day I set off with a butterfly net. The air was full of insects, the flowers with bees and butterflies. But I didn't see any dragonflies. As I floated through the last of the meadows, the spikes of a cattail attracted my attention. A huge dragonfly was humming round and round, and when at last I caught it, I hopped and skipped all the way back to Mr. O'Donnell's shop. Taking a magnifying glass, he held the jar up to the light and made a careful study of the dragonfly. He fished out a number
RE: [FairfieldLife] Amreeka -- movie
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bhairitu Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:22 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Amreeka -- movie Here's another little indie gem I watched on Netflix last night: http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Amreeka/70112460 It's a story about a Palestinian woman and her son who travel from the West Bank to Chicago to stay with her sister right as the US is bombing Iraq in 2003. Saw it. Quite good, I thought.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Checkout Ravi Yogi's FB profile !!
Thanks shukri for helping me nail my core teaching down. *Bhagwan Ravi yogi has no story, so he makes up stories as he goes along. **He takes everyone on a wild, fun filled roller coaster ride.* Thats it. Its nothing new but simple, innocent and pristine. The stories or roles vary depending the intensity of shukri on your brains. Someone like my niece is so open so its easy to tell any kind of tall tale and she trusts, believes and has loads of fun. Thats why all the gurus insist on faith and trust. The intensity of fun is directly proportional to the amount of faith - as simple as that. Its your choice. Shukris are miserable since they have one story, they get manipulated and are not in control, sometimes it matches the divine story resulting in happiness and sometime it clashes resulting in misery. Anyway for some shukris jealousy is a way to attach themselves to the essence, so Ravi Yogi doesn't mind these and continues his plan. All yogis will use metaphors or puns since essence is beyond language. So most of the shukri brains get deceived for example yogic flying. There are inane discussions, courses on that. But it is a metaphor or pun, flying represents freedom, a true yogi is real free. A real yogi like Bhagwan Ravi yogi flies every night. So you can get caught up discussing the finger that points to the sky, or understand that the finger points to the sky and have trust and faith in the essence to reach it. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:00 AM, shukra69 shukr...@yahoo.ca wrote: like a troubled 9 year old boy. you could live a more dignified and meaningful life, its not about psychiatric drugs
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Alien in the White House
Actually the old man on a throne is one of the images of Zeus Pantokrator and also its derivative Christ Pantocrator. This is the idea/eidos of God we get from the x-gen bible. YHVH was initially just a mountain protector-deity later universalized by the Hebrews once they encountered Platonism. The ancient Greek and Hindu deities were more like actors playing out a drama with humans and each other. We could call it local cosmos opera or get fancy and call it Lila. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: At least the Christian God is an old fart who mainly sits on a throne and strokes His long, hoary beard and lets His son do the dirty work for Him. In their mythology He doesn't go running around trying to pork other people's wives. If one had to believe that some immense being was In Charge, better this one than the petty gods and goddesses of Brahmaloka in my opinion.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Checkout Ravi Yogi's FB profile !!
Now he's a Bhagwan. With a massive following of one four year old. From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ravi Chivukula Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:03 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Checkout Ravi Yogi's FB profile !! Thanks shukri for helping me nail my core teaching down. Bhagwan Ravi yogi has no story, so he makes up stories as he goes along. He takes everyone on a wild, fun filled roller coaster ride. Thats it. Its nothing new but simple, innocent and pristine. The stories or roles vary depending the intensity of shukri on your brains. Someone like my niece is so open so its easy to tell any kind of tall tale and she trusts, believes and has loads of fun. Thats why all the gurus insist on faith and trust. The intensity of fun is directly proportional to the amount of faith - as simple as that. Its your choice. Shukris are miserable since they have one story, they get manipulated and are not in control, sometimes it matches the divine story resulting in happiness and sometime it clashes resulting in misery. Anyway for some shukris jealousy is a way to attach themselves to the essence, so Ravi Yogi doesn't mind these and continues his plan. All yogis will use metaphors or puns since essence is beyond language. So most of the shukri brains get deceived for example yogic flying. There are inane discussions, courses on that. But it is a metaphor or pun, flying represents freedom, a true yogi is real free. A real yogi like Bhagwan Ravi yogi flies every night. So you can get caught up discussing the finger that points to the sky, or understand that the finger points to the sky and have trust and faith in the essence to reach it. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:00 AM, shukra69 shukr...@yahoo.ca wrote: like a troubled 9 year old boy. you could live a more dignified and meaningful life, its not about psychiatric drugs
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Checkout Ravi Yogi's FB profile !!
Well it's a good start.. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com wrote: Now he's a Bhagwan. With a massive following of one four year old. *From:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto: fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Ravi Chivukula *Sent:* Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:03 PM *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Checkout Ravi Yogi's FB profile !! Thanks shukri for helping me nail my core teaching down. *Bhagwan Ravi yogi has no story, so he makes up stories as he goes along. **He takes everyone on a wild, fun filled roller coaster ride.* Thats it. Its nothing new but simple, innocent and pristine. The stories or roles vary depending the intensity of shukri on your brains. Someone like my niece is so open so its easy to tell any kind of tall tale and she trusts, believes and has loads of fun. Thats why all the gurus insist on faith and trust. The intensity of fun is directly proportional to the amount of faith - as simple as that. Its your choice. Shukris are miserable since they have one story, they get manipulated and are not in control, sometimes it matches the divine story resulting in happiness and sometime it clashes resulting in misery. Anyway for some shukris jealousy is a way to attach themselves to the essence, so Ravi Yogi doesn't mind these and continues his plan. All yogis will use metaphors or puns since essence is beyond language. So most of the shukri brains get deceived for example yogic flying. There are inane discussions, courses on that. But it is a metaphor or pun, flying represents freedom, a true yogi is real free. A real yogi like Bhagwan Ravi yogi flies every night. So you can get caught up discussing the finger that points to the sky, or understand that the finger points to the sky and have trust and faith in the essence to reach it. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:00 AM, shukra69 shukr...@yahoo.ca wrote: like a troubled 9 year old boy. you could live a more dignified and meaningful life, its not about psychiatric drugs
[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Radical Peace: People Refusing War, by William T. Hathaway
Fwd From: Ken Chawkin kchaw...@mum.edu Below are two recent tweets on William T. Hathaway's latest literary work, Radical Peace: People Refusing War. The book presents the first-person experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists in the USA, Europe, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Just released by Trine Day, it's a journey along diverse paths of nonviolence, the true stories of people working for peace in unconventional ways. The first and last chapters are posted on OpEdNews.com. He turned the last chapter of Radical Peace, Conscious Peace, into an excellent TM article, and it's been published in OpEdNews and several other web magazines: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Radical-Peace-People-Refu-by-William-T-Hathawa-100604-346.htmlhttp://www.opednews.com/articles/Radical-Peace-People-Refu-by-William-T-Hathawa-100604-346.html This last chapter discusses his TM practice, and the vision of possibilities it holds for world peace. It's a powerful work, which opens with this paragraph: I was sitting in full lotus, body wrapped in a blanket, mind rapt in deep stillness, breathing lightly, wisps of air curling into the infinite space behind my closed eyes. My mantra had gone beyond sound to become a pulse of light in an emptiness that contained everything. An intro and the complete last chapter are now posted on my blog: http://wp.me/pD0BA-18Fhttp://wp.me/pD0BA-18F. William T. Hathaway is a political journalist and a former Special Forces soldier turned peace activist whose articles have appeared in more than 40 publications, including Humanist, the Los Angeles Times, Midstream Magazine, and Synthesis/Regeneration. He won a Fullbright grant to teach at universities in Germany, where he continues to reside. He is an adjunct professor of American studies at the University of Oldenburg. William and his wife also run a small TM center there. Hathaway is the author of A World of Hurt (Rinehart Foundation Award), CD-Ring, and Summer Snow. He is currently working on WELLSPRINGS: A Fable of Consciousness, which focuses on applying Vedic knowledge to ecology. A selection of his writing is available at www.peacewriter.org http://www.peacewriter.orghttp://www.peacewriter.org. William also spent 7 years, from 1987-1993, as an assistant professor in the Master's in Professional Writing at MIU, now MUM. kenchawkin http://twitter.com/kenchawkinhttp://twitter.com/kenchawkin Radical Peace: People Refusing War, by William T. Hathaway. Chapter 15: Conscious Peace. http://bit.ly/93FT3khttp://bit.ly/93FT3k | Discusses his TM practice. kenchawkin http://twitter.com/kenchawkinhttp://twitter.com/kenchawkin RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War, by William T. Hathaway. Chapter 1: The Real War Heroes. http://bit.ly/8XOskVhttp://bit.ly/8XOskV
[FairfieldLife] Re: BP buys oil spill related search terms
Yes I was appalled to see how the media were reporting this like it was a scandal. Anyone who uses Google should be able to know that the top items are paid listings on search. It's highlighted in yellow on my browser and clearly says sponsored link. No scandal here! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: -Original Message- From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bhairitu Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:33 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] BP buys oil spill related search terms Will these crooks know no end to cover their butts? http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/306996 Whether it's a $50 million TV commercial blitz or BP CEO Tony Hayward snapping to a reporter that he wanted his life back, the company behind the nation's worst oil disaster in history can't seem to get its message right. Now, the latest media misstep, according to media watchdogs and industry experts: the company has been buying up the top Internet search terms such as oil spill or BP - a move that places its corporate website at the top of search results pages. You can't buy search terms or buy your way to the top of the organic search listings. They're just buying pay-per-click ads, bidding on various keywords, which any relevant site could do, and bidding high enough to rank at or near the top. Can't say that I blame them for trying to tell their side of the story, as long as it's truthful. If it isn't it'll backfire on them. They're under a lot of scrutiny.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 2010 Summer Session IAA
similar e-mail on the side from before, Yet another indication of big changes in the TMO. I think it likely that Rajaism is going to go, be swept under the carpet, too weird and offputting. Things will loosen up. A return to the mid 70's style TMO will be encouraged. ,,, Dick, I forwarded your post to old TM friends out in the world, and this came back in response, Yes, I've heard that there is quite a change going on with the TM movement. And nothing I am interested in right now for my spiritual path either. I actually did a wonderful yoga treat with the SF Zen center at their facility in Tassajara - a very magical place. Have you ever been or heard of it. I really enjoyed their guest practice in their zendo - a very simple meditation. http://www.sfzc.org/tassajara/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@ wrote: 2010 Summer Session Invincible America Assembly Events on the Maharishi University of Management campus Schedule Summer Session IA Assembly July 3-31 Governor Refresher Block 1 (Governor Recertification Course) July 10 through 24 July Visitors Weekend, MUM July 16-19 TM-Sidhi Program Checking Meeting July 21 Guru Purnima July 25 National Governor Workshops July 26 through 28 Governor Refresher Block 2 July 29 through Aug. 7 Musical Workshops Aug. 2-7 Meditator Residence Course Aug. 13-16 Please note: for information about Governor courses, email mailto:education@education@ Contacts for the musical workshops and the Residence Course are listed below. For information on the Visitor's Weekend, see http://www.mum.edu/visitors/welcome.htmlwww.mum.edu/visitors/welcome.html Ongoing Events Advanced Techniques July 17-18 or by request; we will do everything possible to accommodate you. Please call Wally DeVasier at (641) 919-8188. Maharishi Ayurvedic Treatments and Vedic Health Sessions at The Raj Ayurvedic health experts Mark Toomey, Ph.D. or Sankari Wegman, Ph.D. are available by appointment. Call (641) 472-9580, Ext. 6. See http://www.theraj.comwww.theraj.com for more information. Maharishi Light Therapy with Gems is also available at The Raj, and can be scheduled at (641) 472-9580, Ext. 6. Maharishi Vedic Vibration Therapy (MVVT) Experts will be available this summer. To research and apply, see http://www.vedicvibration.comwww.vedicvibration.com or call Deirdre Meehan, (641) 469-6706. Maharishi Vedic Performances If you would like to attend a live Maharishi Vedic Pandit performance-expected to be available many Sundays this summer-please register online: www.invincibleamerica.org/vedic_performances Meditator Residence Courses To apply, please call Wally DeVasier at (641) 919-8188. Consciousness, Creativity and Music: Silence into Sound-enlivening transcendence within and across musical genres A series of performances and hands-on workshops led by a variety of professional Sidha and Governor musicians; may include a Maharishi Gandharva Veda musician. For details, please contact Isabelle Matzkin mailto:imatzkin@imatzkin@ Programs for Children The Maharishi School is organizing a series of summer camps from June 21 through July 30, for children ages 5 through 10. For details, contact Laura Bordow, (641) 472-9400 Ext. #5070, or email mailto:lbordow@lbordow@ Area Activities If you are considering bringing your family or simply want to enjoy 200% of life, walking trails, swimming and other sports, art, music and theatrical events, and a variety of restaurants are all available in Fairfield and nearby communities. For more detailed information, check out this website: http://www.fairfieldfirst.biz/Fairfield_First!/Buzz.htmlhttp://www.fairfieldfirst.biz/Fairfield_First!/Buzz.html You may also contact Bob and Carol Markowitz at 641-919-7045. They will be happy to help. http://invincibleamerica.org/unsubscribe/Click here to unsubscribe
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lock-down on the Gulf
Thom Hartmann on this: Thom's blog Is BP Enforcing a No Fly Zone? Late last month, Mississippi state House Speaker Billy McCoy (D) and Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant (R) started a select committee to look into the BP oil spill and would hold hearings this week. McCoy said, The people of Mississippi deserve to know how this happened and what the future may hold for this most valuable part of our state. However, earlier this week, BP wrote a letter saying it wouldn't be showing up for the three-day hearings this week. They, after all, are corporate royalty and don't need to respond to the demands of mere elected officials of the state whose oil they're taking and selling to China. In a related issue, I interviewed extensively a charter airplane operator in Louisiana who said that during the first four weeks after the BP Oil explosion a area of Temporary Flight Restriction or TFR extended 30 miles or so around the Deepwater Horizon and has since expanded to cover virtually every place that oil is in the water or hitting wetlands or land. This representative noted that the command center for the crisis - out of which the Coast Guard and other federal agencies are operating - is headquartered in a BP training facility and, until the intervention of Louisiana Senator David Vitter, whenever charter flight operators called for permission to fly into the TFR they were extensively questioned about who they had on board the plane, and if it was the press the right to fly over the area was routinely denied. In the past few days, though, since the administration has moved from a position of helping BP cover up the extent of their crime by spraying dispersants and keeping the press out to a position of actively challenging BP, flights are being allowed into the area with press aboard. -Thom
[FairfieldLife] Good morning, Sarah. It's me, Barack.
The President of the United States and the Pretend President on Facebook confer. Take a look: http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/potus_talks_to_ppofb/
[FairfieldLife] Re: New Crop Circle in beans ! Reported 7th June
sri Rick-ji, Web pictures dosen't appear on daily digest format --- On Wed, 6/9/10, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] New Crop Circle in beans ! Reported 7th June Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 3:11 PM Stony Littleton Long Barrow, Nr Wellow. Somerset. Reported 7th June. Map Ref: ST734572 This Page has been accessed Updated Wednesday 9th June 2010 AERIAL SHOTS GROUND SHOTS DIAGRAMS FIELD REPORTS COMMENTS ARTICLES 07/06/10 08/06/10 09/06/10 08/06/10 09/06/10 09/06/10 I took a chance today, no rain but no sun either… crop circles are really a challenge to photograph ! so nothing really good today but at least these few pictures will show the exact shape. There is no tramlines really but I think we are talking about a formation of 200/250 feet long. It's on a hill and it is slightly curved. Olivier Morel he Impact of the Ancient and the New. Well done to Olivier Morel (WCCSG) for shooting these wonderful shots of this enigmatic formation which were taken in difficult conditions. The formations positioned next to Stony Littleton Long Barrow add significance to the whole event. With the timeline clearly seen at this location spanning from ancient times to the impact of this present and unexpected set of circles. Unexpected also because this is the first time a formation has appeared at this location. This adds a depth and complexity to this whole intriguing event. Well done again Olivier for undertaking such a long flight and bringing us these great aerial shots. Julian Gibsone (Director of the Crop Circle Connectors DVD's) Images Olivier Morel Copyright 2010 Images Stuart Dike Copyright 2010 The location high on the hillside overlooking a quiet valley close to the Roman City of Bath is quite stunning. The Chamber Barrow of Stony Littleton is one of the finest Burial Chambers in Britain. Thought to be around 5000 years old, it resides in a remote location, cut off from the hectic 21st century. Perhaps one of the most amazing locations I have had the pleasure to visit, and yet only 40 minutes from my own home. The formation is located right next to the ancient mound. The crop remains a mystery at the moment, as its very short, but however does have a yellow flower. At first glance we thought it was Old Canola, as most of the Canola fields are losing their flowers at this stage. It is only 3ft in height with a much narrow stem than Canola. The crop inside had an extremely neat floor pattern, with minimal breakage. More to follow. Stuart Dike CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST CROP CIRCLE CONNECTOR DVD Make a donation to keep the web site alive... Thank you Images Olivier Morel Copyright 2010 Map Ref: ST734572 This Page has been accessed Updated Wednesday 9th June 2010 AERIAL SHOTS GROUND SHOTS DIAGRAMS FIELD REPORTS COMMENTS ARTICLES 07/06/10 08/06/10 09/06/10 08/06/10 09/06/10 09/06/10 I took a chance today, no rain but no sun either… crop circles are really a challenge to photograph ! so nothing really good today but at least these few pictures will show the exact shape. There is no tramlines really but I think we are talking about a formation of 200/250 feet long. It's on a hill and it is slightly curved. Olivier Morel The Impact of the Ancient and the New. Well done to Olivier Morel (WCCSG) for shooting these wonderful shots of this enigmatic formation which were taken in difficult conditions. The formations positioned next to Stony Littleton Long Barrow add significance to the whole event. With the timeline clearly seen at this location spanning from ancient times to the impact of this present and unexpected set of circles. Unexpected also because this is the first time a formation has appeared at this location. This adds a depth and complexity to this whole intriguing event. Well done again Olivier for undertaking such a long flight and bringing us these great aerial shots. Julian Gibsone (Director of the Crop Circle Connectors DVD's) Images Olivier Morel Copyright 2010 Images Stuart Dike Copyright 2010 The location high on the hillside overlooking a quiet valley close to the Roman City of Bath is quite stunning. The Chamber Barrow of Stony Littleton is one of the finest Burial Chambers in Britain. Thought to be around 5000 years old, it resides in a remote location, cut off from the hectic 21st century. Perhaps one of the most amazing locations I have had the pleasure to visit, and yet only 40 minutes from my own home. The formation is located right next to the ancient mound. The crop remains a mystery at the moment, as its very short, but however does have a yellow flower. At first glance we thought it was Old Canola, as most of the Canola
[FairfieldLife] Re: BP buys oil spill related search terms
Bhairitu: Will these crooks know no end to cover their butts? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that BP, the energy company responsible for the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, helped craft the bill proposed by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman that would tax businesses for carbon emissions and raise the cost of fuel for American consumers... Read more: 'McConnell Charges That 'Major Part' of Democrats' Cap-Trade Bill 'Essentially Written by BP' By Penny Starr CNS News, June 09, 2010 http://tinyurl.com/2g3z25m
[FairfieldLife] Re: Good morning, Sarah. It's me, Barack.
do.rflex: The President of the United States... Obama says he's sick and tired of the Washington blame game, but still can't resist doling out piles of blame himself. His compulsive, reflexive finger-pointing at Republicans, George W. Bush and vague villains on the right is not only unbecoming, it also reinforces the gathering public verdict that Obama is a weakling... Read more: 'Obama falls headfirst into the hypocrisy trap' By Chris Stirewalt Washington Examiner, June 10, 2010 http://tinyurl.com/24cwbw7
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Newage bias on Huffpost
TurquoiseB: Recently here and on BATGAP folks have been discussing gullibility, as in the ability to believe that someone like Trivedi can claim that he can clean up the oil spill via his powerful Woo Woo and have them believe it completely, for no other reason than that he says he can... I studied with a guy who could turn huge rooms in convention centers gold, to the point where even the security guards saw it, but that never made me think he was enlightened, only that he could do cool things with light... Subject: Re: Two simple questions Author: Uncle Tantra Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: March 16, 2003
[FairfieldLife] Re: Are you getting diabetes from your computer?
Bhairitu: Are you getting diabetes from your computer? How are those blood sugar levels after spending hours on FFL? Apparently you are on FFL 24 x 7, so you'd probably be needing shots of insulin every three hours or so. It takes me about three minutes to read through the posts on FFL, and another two minutes to respond to your questions.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 2010 Summer Session IAA
Guru Purnima July 25 Hey Dear Dick, is the Guru Purnima celebration going to be open as of old or exclusive and closed as has been usual for the last couple decades here? Newly 'open', something like you wrote recently: Open and free to MUM Faculty, Staff, Students, IA, and anyone who practices the Transcendental Meditation technique. Or, bring a valid dome badge to git in, as has been the rule? A Guru Purnima kind of guru celebration where even long time regular practicing TM meditators in the community, like Rick Archer for instance, could go to Guru Purnima. If as old meditators they would like to honor, pay respects and go along. Just wondering, -Buck in FF Dick, I forwarded your post to old TM friends out in the world, and this came back in response, Yes, I've heard that there is quite a change going on with the TM movement. And nothing I am interested in right now for my spiritual path either. I actually did a wonderful yoga treat with the SF Zen center at their facility in Tassajara - a very magical place. Have you ever been or heard of it. I really enjoyed their guest practice in their zendo - a very simple meditation. http://www.sfzc.org/tassajara/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@ wrote: 2010 Summer Session Invincible America Assembly Events on the Maharishi University of Management campus Schedule Summer Session IA Assembly July 3-31 Governor Refresher Block 1 (Governor Recertification Course) July 10 through 24 July Visitors Weekend, MUM July 16-19 TM-Sidhi Program Checking Meeting July 21 Guru Purnima July 25 National Governor Workshops July 26 through 28 Governor Refresher Block 2 July 29 through Aug. 7 Musical Workshops Aug. 2-7 Meditator Residence Course Aug. 13-16 Please note: for information about Governor courses, email mailto:education@education@ Contacts for the musical workshops and the Residence Course are listed below. For information on the Visitor's Weekend, see http://www.mum.edu/visitors/welcome.htmlwww.mum.edu/visitors/welcome.html Ongoing Events Advanced Techniques July 17-18 or by request; we will do everything possible to accommodate you. Please call Wally DeVasier at (641) 919-8188. Maharishi Ayurvedic Treatments and Vedic Health Sessions at The Raj Ayurvedic health experts Mark Toomey, Ph.D. or Sankari Wegman, Ph.D. are available by appointment. Call (641) 472-9580, Ext. 6. See http://www.theraj.comwww.theraj.com for more information. Maharishi Light Therapy with Gems is also available at The Raj, and can be scheduled at (641) 472-9580, Ext. 6. Maharishi Vedic Vibration Therapy (MVVT) Experts will be available this summer. To research and apply, see http://www.vedicvibration.comwww.vedicvibration.com or call Deirdre Meehan, (641) 469-6706. Maharishi Vedic Performances If you would like to attend a live Maharishi Vedic Pandit performance-expected to be available many Sundays this summer-please register online: www.invincibleamerica.org/vedic_performances Meditator Residence Courses To apply, please call Wally DeVasier at (641) 919-8188. Consciousness, Creativity and Music: Silence into Sound-enlivening transcendence within and across musical genres A series of performances and hands-on workshops led by a variety of professional Sidha and Governor musicians; may include a Maharishi Gandharva Veda musician. For details, please contact Isabelle Matzkin mailto:imatzkin@imatzkin@ Programs for Children The Maharishi School is organizing a series of summer camps from June 21 through July 30, for children ages 5 through 10. For details, contact Laura Bordow, (641) 472-9400 Ext. #5070, or email mailto:lbordow@lbordow@ Area Activities If you are considering bringing your family or simply want to enjoy 200% of life, walking trails, swimming and other sports, art, music and theatrical events, and a variety of restaurants are all available in Fairfield and nearby communities. For more detailed information, check out this website: http://www.fairfieldfirst.biz/Fairfield_First!/Buzz.htmlhttp://www.fairfieldfirst.biz/Fairfield_First!/Buzz.html You may also contact Bob and Carol Markowitz at 641-919-7045. They will be happy to help. http://invincibleamerica.org/unsubscribe/Click here to unsubscribe
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@... wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jun 05 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Jun 12 00:00:00 2010 427 messages as of (UTC) Fri Jun 11 00:06:06 2010 51 authfriend jst...@... I can't see a Yahoo glitch or accidental double-post to explain this. Last night's post count was 46, and you posted 5 more times today, so it was a miscount on your end. You can post again on the evening of Friday, June 18th.
[FairfieldLife] Einstein was a man of faith !
Einstein's theory of General Relativity predicted that light would bend bypassing a massive planet like the Sun. That was the only feasible experiment for his untested theory at the time since there were no lasers, etc. Einstein was asked what if the experiment proves his theory wrong? He said that would mean the experiment was not done properly. Amen !
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Alien in the White House
Just a few points. 1. A political ideology literally means a belief system or a set of doctrines about why and how to govern through political power. 2. Is a doctrine of power that defines and formulates all national and personal values what you are looking to implement in peoples lives? Will this save us from ourselves because somehow we can't possibly find it on our own without these doctrines or beliefs? 3. I don't contend that we are pawns of the gods but rather that immense beings of real potency and actuality seek to influence human minds and human destiny. They don't usually intervene directly because intervening in human affairs directly or even by proxy would entangle them in the endless vagaries of karmic causality. The best example of this is the mountain spirit yhvh, protector of the Jews. If you'll remember, he directed his people to mass murder all of the inhabitants of 60 walled cities and towns in Canaan, not even allowing them to keep any cattle. This means they murdered all the babies, children and women all slaughtered by the sword, sliced to pieces. For directing this brutality,yhvh was engulfed in a matrix of karmic reactions and ended up having to take birth as one of his own servants - as a Jew in a life where inwardly he felt he possessed a deiform status but was powerless to stop the dreadful karmic repercussions which felled him. If this sounds strange to you then please remember that the fact that he was apotheosized by the X-gens means that we were given interpretive veils to shield us from even considering suchideas. (I have heard x-gens rationalize that since their little god created these condemned souls he could exterminate them where and when he wished.) 4. The foundation for taking bodhisattva vows is known as bodhichitta an awakened heart. Bodhi means wakeful, chitta means personal consciousness or heart awareness. (Yoga Sutra 3.34) Without an awakened heart no one can realistically commit to taking bodhisattva vows. Bodhisattva vows, however, are immeasurably important because they establish a karmic connection across many lifetimes and create a yogic directionality that supersedes our own personal karma (i.e. karma based upon mere causality.) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: EB, if I understand you correctly, you're saying the gods are as crazy for political power as we are, so in the larger scheme of things, and since it's all about the shark's bite, (raping) there's no point in taking sides. O.K. it's a bit obtuse and I get that, but I'm still curious about *why* you posted Rabinowitz's article. I agree, no matter the endless misery gods or humans bring upon themselves, everyone, not just those who have taken bodhisattva vows, have a responsibility to help everyone find happiness and freedom from suffering. The question is, since everyone has a different idea about the causes of happiness and causes leading to suffering, how do we go about helping others without getting wrapped up in taking sides? At the heart of every political ideology there is a desire to alleviate suffering but eventually it falls short, ends up as a struggle for power, implodes, and makes way for a new ideology. The pendulum swings from left to right, attempting homeostasis somewhere in the center. Ideologies operate in the relative life, in the field of change, in disagreements, of taking sides and war. Maharishi's great gift to the world and gift from other enlightened beings who have graced our planet, leads us to Being, uniting us on the level of consciousness, and making us responsible for own happiness. I'll buy that over a political ideology, any day. That said, I'm still willing to take a stand for a political ideology that I believe can best serve our country at this point in time. The bottom line for me is that we have to learn how to work the nuts and bolts of political machinery as best we can so we can avoid driving our economy, educational system, health care, etc, etc, over a cliff.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Teaching Virtue
Spiritual-good in the TM sense would be that which promotes spiritual experience. Having discipline (as in attending to things) in spiritual practice. MMY: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiTzu_SxTisfeature=related The Value of a Human Birth and the Importance of Right Action Guru Dev (Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math India 1941-1953) Do good works without hesitation. The Jiva has been experiencing samsara for many, many births. It is only natural, therefore, that its tendencies have become worldly. To turn its tendencies toward Paramatman and away from samsara requires some effort. In reality, the aim of life is to stop the mind from involvement with this world. If one engages in spiritual practice and in thinking and speaking about God, the mind will start dwelling on Him and after some time it will withdraw from the world on its own. In our daily affairs we should adopt a strategy of quickly attending to good works and things related to the Divine. Should any wrong thought arise, on the other hand, we should try to postpone it to another time by saying, I'll do it tomorrow, or the day after next. In this way, wrong action can be continuously postponed. To be born a human is more fortunate than to be born a deva (angel or Divine being). Taking birth as a deva is considered comparable to taking birth as any other life form. Birth as a deva is attained by those who perform certain sacrifices and karma, etc. associated with divinity, with the intention to enjoy divine pleasures. The minds of the devas wander incessantly because of the abundance of enjoyable things in the heavenly realms, and hence they cannot perform purushartha (Divine action - action in accord with the cosmic evolution and individual destiny). For this reason, the human birth is considered superior, because here, by doing as much purushartha as possible, one can eventually merge with God. A human being is like a lump of pure gold, whereas devas are like pieces of fine jewelry. Having been perfected as jewelry, their progress is complete, and they cannot be further improved. On the other hand, gold which has not yet been crafted by the jeweler, has unlimited potential. Hence the birth of a human being is said to be the very best birth for action. Having attained this birth, one should not act carelessly, but should conscientiously perform the best purushartha. Fulfilling one's own dharma while keeping faith in Paramatman is the greatest purushartha. Strive to become one with God in this lifetime. Have firm faith in the Vedas and Shastras (Vedic scripture) and keep the company of saints, mahatmas and wise people. Only then will the purpose of your life be fulfilled. To get a human body is a rare thingmake full use of it. There are four million kinds of births which a soul can gather. After that one gets a human body. Therefore, one should not waste this opportunity. Every second in human life is very valuable. If you don't value this, then you will have nothing in hand and you will weep in the end. Because you're human, God has given you power to think and decide what is good and bad. Therefore, you can do the best possible kind of action. You should never consider yourself weak or a fallen creature. Whatever may have happened up to now may be because you didn't know. But now be careful. After gaining a human body, if you don't reach God, then you have sold a diamond at the price of spinach. Swami Brahmananda Saraswati- The Good. Right is that which produces a good influence everywhere. Certainly right and wrong are relative terms and, therefore, nothing in relative existence can be said to be absolutely right or absolutely wrong. But even so, right and wrong can only be judged by their influence for good or bad. If something produces a good influence everywhere it can be said to be right. -Maharishi, Science of Being Art of Living Spiritual-good in the TM sense would be that which promotes spiritual experience. Evidently known by experience or culture. For whatever tribal reasons Maharishi did not delineate much and obviously went his own way. No ten commandments, no 'golden rule'. One is cultural, they (the TM movement) don't teach much by way of ethics generally. Mostly just 'meditate and act'. The curricula stays way away from morality other than cursory things like 'meditate and act', some scientific charts about social behavior, and then occasionally never do that which you know to be wrong as standard. Not much by way of particular ethical value related to spiritual practice. Nothing really
[FairfieldLife] The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)
please be patient, part 2 of 8 gets more and more interesting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY part 1 of 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb3JI8F9LQQ part 2 of 8 etc
